joining us, christian white, former state department senior advisor for george w. bush and principal at d.c. international advisory. you heard it was kind of an apology, kind of aqualified apology. how important is it? >> it's important. it's a apology or nonapology that shouldn't be made. we are engaging taliban forces inside afghanistan. we were attacked first. pakistan says the opposite. >> you look at the supply lines into afghanistan and nonetheless these are important for us. >> they're critically important though there's an alternative in asia and russia for the fraction of the $3 billion we hand pakistan we could have built a railroad, better for the afghan economy and our war firefighters, especially considering how much we have to take out of afghanistan. >> don't we need these supply lines? >> they're important. the question is why we couldn't have done something like impounding all aid to afghanistan. >> even a semi-apology is too much? >> it reinforce bad notions in pakistani politics that they can take a lot of our money and get away with anything, in